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Direct linkTingting Fan; Xun Yan – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2025
This quasi-experimental study examines the impact of a diagnosis-based pedagogical intervention on the development of micro English as a foreign language (EFL) reading abilities over time. Specifically, 105 first-year graduate students in a Chinese university completed three diagnostic reading assessments at the beginning, middle, and end of a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Tests
Download full textAntonieta Morales-Jaramillo; Éder Intriago-Palacios; Paolo Fabre-Merchán; Frans Recalde-Garcia – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
This study sought to explore the power of self-generated drawing to improve reading comprehension of English language learners in a university setting. Fourteen undergraduate students, divided into control and experimental groups, read a chapter from a graded reader. The experimental group was instructed to construct self-generated drawings as…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Self Concept, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Aktas, Elif – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023
Different methods, techniques and strategies are employed in teaching to improve reading, especially comprehension skills to ensure reading motivation. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of readers theater on reading comprehension skills and reading motivation in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. In the study, in which an…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Improvement, Reading Motivation
Daniel Malakowsky – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
Twenty adult ESL students at a community college participated in a semester reading intervention. Participants received a modified extensive reading treatment, and some participants received an additional repeated reading direct instruction reading intervention. The author examined the impact of the reading interventions on ESL students' reading…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Community Colleges
Zhihong Xu; Kausalai Wijekumar; Qing Wang; Robin Irey; Hua Liang – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Underdeveloped reading comprehension skills can limit academic success; a particular challenge for English language learners (ELLs). The current study investigated whether a web-based text structure strategy, delivered via the Intelligent Tutoring of Structure Strategy (ITSS) program to adult Chinese ELLs, improved students' use of reading…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Reading Instruction
Hyun Soo Kim; Jang Ho Lee; Hansol Lee – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Glossing is a widely used and examined vocabulary learning tool, and one of the major branches of glossing research has compared the relative effects of first language (L1) and second language (L2) glosses on reading comprehension and vocabulary learning. However, the findings in this literature have not been consistent, calling for a…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Muthita Chinpakdee; Peter Yongqi Gu – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This article reports findings from a larger research project which aimed to promote learner autonomy among Thai secondary school learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) through strategy-based instruction (SBI). The study involved 30 learners from an intervention class and 32 learners from a comparison class. Nine strategies were introduced…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mushoffan Prasetianto; Rizkiana Maharddhika; Syakilla Eka Putri Lestari Trimus – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
Reading is a skill that is initially taught in schools. Students are introduced to the alphabet and later learn to read texts. Reading Foreign languages is also introduced when students learn a foreign language. The student requires reading activities that include vocabulary learning. Extensive reading is one of the practical activities of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Peterson, Jeff – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2022
Extensive reading (ER) research has suggested that completing the equivalent of 7,200 standard words of extensive reading per week facilitates substantial reading rate gains. Research has also suggested that 100 minutes per week is sufficient to complete this goal for most English language learners (Beglar & Hunt, 2014). However, experimental…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Reading Achievement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Noam Siegelman; Irina Elgort; Marc Brysbaert; Niket Agrawal; Simona Amenta; Jasmina Arsenijevic Mijalkovic; Christine S. Chang; Daria Chernova; Fabienne Chetail; A. J. Benjamin Clarke; Alain Content; Davide Crepaldi; Nastag Davaabold; Shurentsetseg Delgersuren; Avital Deutsch; Veronika Dibrova; Denis Drieghe; Dušica Filipovic Ðurdevic; Brittany Finch; Ram Frost; Carolina A. Gattei; Esther Geva; Aline Godfroid; Lindsay Griener; Esteban Hernández-Rivera; Anastasia Ivanenko; Juhani Järvikivi; Lea Kawaletz; Anurag Khare; Jun Ren Lee; Charlotte E. Lee; Christina Manouilidou; Marco Marelli; Timur Mashanlo; Ksenija Mišic; Koji Miwa; Pauline Palma; Ingo Plag; Zoya Rezanova; Enkhzaya Riimed; Jay Rueckl; Sascha Schroeder; Irina A. Sekerina; Diego E. Shalom; Natalia Slioussar; Neža Marija Slosar; Vanessa Taler; Kim Thériault; Debra Titone; Odonchimeg Tumee; Ross van de Wetering; Ark Verma; Anna Fiona Weiss; Denise Hsien Wu; Victor Kuperman – Language Learning, 2024
This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university-level advanced learners and native speakers of English representing 19 countries. The database also includes estimates of reading rate and seven component skills of English, including vocabulary,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Brahim Outamgharte; Mohamed Yeou; Hicham Zyad – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2024
Recent research on English as a foreign language (EFL) vocabulary instruction has surged due to its inherent importance and the challenge it poses, given the vast number of words in languages. Many studies explored how reading enhances EFL students' vocabulary. However, empirical studies on how narrow reading aids beginners' vocabulary growth are…
Descriptors: High School Students, Receptive Language, Vocabulary Skills, Reading Skills
Giovanna Arenare; Encarnación Carrasco Perea; Carmen López Ferrero – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This article focuses on the effects of a 21-hour Romance Intercomprehension (RIC) module on the plurilingual competence in Romance languages of no prior knowledge and EFL reading comprehension skills of a group of Italian schoolchildren aged 10-11. Data were collected pre- and post-training through a simple language identification and…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Abduljalil Hazaea – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
This study implements a timed reading (TR) approach as a scaffolding teaching and learning method to enhance reading achievement and strategies within the Saudi English as a foreign language (EFL) context. The study adopted TR intervention in which processes of EFL reading are scaffolded with those of getting a driving license. The study employs a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Brahim Outamgharte; Mohamed Yeou; Hicham Zyad – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
With the growing interest in integrating information and communication technology in the EFL classroom, the present study investigated the impact of electronic first language (L1) translations and second language (L2) definition glosses on incidental vocabulary learning and retention among Moroccan EFL learners. In total, 172 first-year university…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Fälth, Linda; Selenius, Heidi; Egerhag, Helén – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
According to the Simple View of Reading, decoding and linguistic comprehension are essential for reaching efficient reading comprehension. Students with Swedish as a first (L1) or second language (L2) in grades 1-3 might need special support to develop reading comprehension. In order to identify needs in reading in L1 and L2 students, the current…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Decoding (Reading)
